Food—Whether it’s healthy or unhealthy the FDA is impartial. From the Netflix documentary Fed Up comes an eye-opening discovery of just how corrupt the government is when it comes to food. The documentary touches on the general nature of obesity and its growing numbers since the introduction of “fat-free” and “reduced fat” labeled products to the food industry. The documentary focuses on the FDA’s addition of sugar to these so-called healthier options and shows how the obesity rate of its consumers has skyrocketed.

Laurie David who is the producer of the documentary and an Oscar winning producer of “An Inconvenient Truth,” uses Katie Couric to deliver the purpose of Fed Up to its intended audience. Along with the use of Katie Couric, Laurie David uses former FDA members to inform her audience of its corruption. Also among the masses of jam packed information incorporated into the documentary is stories of children struggling with obesity. This aids Laurie David in getting her audience emotionally invested before she adverts her audience’s attention to the relationship of food companies and the FDA. In this portion, the documentary features the food industry as a whole as having a “credibility problem” when it comes to being paid off and putting masses of chemicals into the foods that consumers eat.

Throughout the documentary, Laurie David attracts and keeps her audience’s attention through scare tactics and hard facts without being too educationally boring or completely accusatory.